Stabilizing the world. Growing the economy. Encouraging innovative leadership. These challenges are front and center as the nation prepares for a new administration and Congress. In a two-part series of recommendations, the George W. Bush Institute is offering solutions for the next four years in each of these areas.
Stabilizing the world. Growing the economy. Encouraging innovative leadership. These challenges are front and center as the nation prepares for a new administration and Congress. In a two-part series of recommendations, the George W. Bush Institute is offering solutions for the next four years in each of these areas.
On the global front, drawing upon the expertise of Bush Institute directors and initiatives, we present proposals to promote human rights and stability in North Korea, expand the progress in eradicating and controlling deadly diseases around the world, and elevate the leadership of First Ladies as a way to solve problems at home and abroad. Domestically, we present proposals to make NAFTA a tool for greater prosperity, empower veterans and their families to successfully reenter civilian life, and improve student progress across the country.
Domestic Excellence
North America: Making NAFTA A Tool for National Prosperity
The North American Free Trade Agreement has been a positive force for the United States, but NAFTA can be improved to help drive greater economic growth. Matthew Rooney, director of the Bush Institute’s Economic Growth Initiative, outlines five ways to update and strengthen this important agreement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
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Veterans: Empowering Veterans to Successfully Re-enter Civilian Life
Most of America’s 21 million-plus veterans will transition smoothly into civilian life. Yet too many veterans and their families face challenges as they re-enter civilian life. Colonel Miguel Howe, USA, Ret., who directs the Bush Institute’s Military Service Initiative, offers a strategy that would allow the new Trump administration to help virtually all of them lead and serve their country as civilians.
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Education: How to Help Students Progress
Education issues didn’t receive much attention during the presidential campaign, but they deserve attention now. Holly Kuzmich, executive director of the Bush Institute, recommends ways to create a robust federal education agenda, including giving families options for their children’s education, ensuring schools measure student progress, developing strong principals, and making data and research a priority.
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Growing the Workforce
America’s economic growth is only as good as the quality of the nation’s workforce. Employers depend upon innovative workers as well as a ready supply of talented employees. Without them, productivity declines, driving down the economy’s ability to expand goods and services. These pieces from Bush Institute experts describe how a modernized immigration system and making use of the new Forever GI Bill can expand America’s workforce. Focusing immigration policies on skilled workers. Tapping the talents of America’s returning service-members. These are crucial recommendations for America to grow its workforce and economy.
Veterans, Employers, and Universities Should Take Advantage of Forever GI Bill
Temporary Workers and Skilled Immigrants Could Grow the Workforce
Global Leadership
North Korea: Human Rights and Security Issues Must Go Together
The United States needs an active, two-pronged strategy for North Korea, concentrating on the nuclear threat as well as human rights in the oppressive nation. Lindsay Lloyd, deputy director of the Bush Institute’s Human Freedom Initiative, details how to combine those two and why they must go together.
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First Ladies: Using Their Platform for Impact
First Ladies have a platform that allows them to spotlight problems and solutions at home as well as abroad. Natalie Gonnella-Platts, deputy director of the Bush Institute’s Women’s Initiative, offers a guide to the East Wing of the incoming Trump administration, showing how First Ladies in the U.S. and around the world have best used their platform for the common good.
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Global Health: Building on America’s Leadership
The U.S. has made progress in fighting AIDS and cervical cancer around the world through such initiatives as the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief. But the U.S. cannot afford to let up in the quest for improving global health care. Celina Schocken, CEO of Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon, a Bush Institute affiliate, explains how the U.S. can lead this campaign.
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